User:Darfst/sandbox/Sara Faridi

Sara Faridi is an Iranian mathematician and professor at Dalhousie University. She works in commutative and combinatorial algebra.

Education
Faridi was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2000. Her thesis was entitled Closure operations on ideals. Her supervisor was Karen E. Smith.

Career
After graduating, she worked at the University of Ottawa, the University of Quebec at Montreal and George Washington University. She has also spent time as a visiting researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt and MSRI.

Faridi serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) and as Vice President – Atlantic Provinces for the Canadian Mathematical Society. She directed the 2013 AARMS summer school. She was an organiser of events including "Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada" and the "Symposium for South Asian Women in Mathematics".

Faridi has been involved in training and fundraising to send a Canadian team to the European Girls' Math Olympiad.